Owner of Texas company pleads guilty to distributing supplement made with synthetic drugs

The owner of a Texas-based business has pleaded guilty in federal court in Abingdon to distributing a dietary supplement in Virginia’s Western District that prosecutors said contained banned synthetic chemicals from China.

Brett Becker, 32, was accused of using the substances for the product manufactured by his Accelerated Genetix brand that was not approved by the FDA that investigators said to mimic the effects of testosterone and anabolic steroids.

Becker is forfeiting $3.5 million and will be sentenced in US District Court on March 15.

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